No, not the cheesy 1979 movie. But the Quakers have shown up in Amityville, Long Island, NY. Read the Whole Thing and be sure to check out the size of that nest!

Or actually not.

Some of the folks out there may remember Willie the Hero Quaker parrot. For those who don’t, Willie’s a Quaker in Colorado and when his companion left the room for a moment, the toddler she was babysitting started to choke and Willie started screaming, “Mama! Baby! Mama! Baby!” She ran back in, did the Heimlich on the child and everyone lived happily ever after.

The Red Cross gave Willie an award recently and Fox News interviewed Willie and his companion. Just like my two, Willie was not about to say a word. But it’s kind of fun watching him poop on the arm of the chair.

Us bird folks are just a bit strange I guess.

No worries, this isn’t going to be another post about getting Iggy down off the curtain rod again. It’s about efforts to save the kakapo.

The kakapo is a large (about nine pounds) and flightless parrot. It also has lost pretty much semblance of an effective fight or flight mechanism. As you can imagine, once man came on the scene, a large bird that basically just sets there and looks at you would become known as just one thing, lunch. And so most of the kakapos went down European gullets.

Fortunately, New Zealand has begun a program to save the kakopa and there are now more than 100. In fact there are more than 30 chicks currently being raised. And an American zoologist has been providing medical assistance to the program.

Good luck to the kakopa!

All this time I’ve been thinking being vegan was the best choice for the animals. Now I find, via failblog.org, I’ve been wrong.

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Who knew?

No, it’s not a sequel to the Alfred Hitchcock classic. Although I’d pay money to see that, come to think of it …

The Wal-Mart in Mays Landing, New Jersey, has a problem with birds flying in. Now I can understand why that isn’t a desirable situation. Nobody wants bird poop on their stuff before they can even get it home so live trapping the birds and releasing them outside seems like a pretty good solution. But, you do have to check the traps occasionally or they aren’t so much of a live trap anymore. And that seems to be the problem. The local SPCA has accused Wal-Mart of leaving birds to die in their traps. We’ll see.